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randomreader.bsky.social

Reader, reader, chocolate-eater. Big fan of treating all humans like humans. She/her.

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Cleaning the microwave at work because I cannot stare at schedules one minute longer.

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Thunderstorms predicted for World Pride parade on Saturday. I don't feel comfortable taking my disabled teen. There are other events, so they can celebrate at those. Joy and safety to everyone planning to participate. ☮️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩷🩵

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If your kids are in K-8, I can get you some super-DEI reading lists. www.foxnews.com/health/secon...

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1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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"People will not lose their Medicaid if they can overcome an impossible obstacle course of administrative burdens we are imposing precisely because we know people can't overcome them" - would be more accurate, but less catchy. 🧵

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"I don't know how I'm supposed to get any work done when there are picturebooks in the world." Me, after stopping twice on my way from the public area to my desk to look at enchanting items.

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"let copilot help you draft" "can gemini write that for you" I have now taken the only reasonable course of action in the circumstances

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“Groundwater may be hidden, but scientists know with relative certainty that once it is pumped out, it won’t be able to recharge within our lifetimes. Much of it was deposited tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago.” I’m sure this is fine, right?

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Let's do a different type of art share... With so much going on with LGBTQ+ & corporate America, why don't we keep the queer dollar in the queer community? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ In this thread, share your Pride merch, or your friend's Pride merch. Let's buy from each other rather than the corporations this year.

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🧵: So when does an AI writeup of a public figure constitute libel? Because at this point, AI could say ANYTHING about you. What recourse do you have to get it removed? What recourse do you have to be made while from reputational loss?

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Name your own damned infrastructure in your own state after anyone you want, but leave DC alone. VA and MD provide significant funding for Metro. They can play this game, too. wtop.com/dc-transit/2...

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There is a possum café in my state! www.awesomepossumz.com

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EveryLibrary responds to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Little v. Llano County decision, which will allow the government to remove or restrict access to books from public library shelves.

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Just like with masks, the opposition to vaccines from the right was never about mandates. They don’t want you to have choices. They want you to make their choice. And now they will force you to do so.

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Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) wite in a new report, "“Despite substantial investments [in chatbots], economic impacts remain minimal.” qz.com/ai-chatbots-... Somebody posted link to an article in Fortune I couldn't access (embargoed in EBSCO?), so here's an alternate.

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